Messaging vs. subroutines -- This is silly

Joachim Durchholz joachim.durchholz at munich.netsurf.de
Fri May 21 20:03:21 UTC 1999


Duane T Williams wrote:
> 
> >A message send is a plymorphic selection, followed by a subroutine
> >callto the appropriate method.
> 
> Does this mean that you couldn't have a distributed implementation of
> Squeak where objects were people, methods were instructions for them
> to follow, and messages were emails?

No, it wouldn't. After all, we can implement subroutine calls and
polymorphic selection with these means as well.
That is, as long as people are willing to act as subroutine invocations
:)

Regards,
Joachim
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